Able Seaman Filipe Crispim Dos Santos competes in the Tug of War event during HMAS Sydney’s Mini-Olympics competition while on regional presence deployment.
27 Aug 2024
Navy
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Mini olympics at sea

Inspired by the 2024 Olympics in Paris, Aussie sailors held their own competition on the flight deck of HMAS Sydney.

Operations & missions | People & service
Flight Lieutenant Andrew Stewart fights for the ball from the South Australian Men's Hockey team.
27 Aug 2024
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Men's hockey team makes final

ADF Hockey teams faced off against each state at the Australian Country Hockey Championships in Goulburn.

Sports, health & wellbeing
Australian Defence Force members and the crew of ‘Lo Spirito di Stella’ at HMAS Moreton during a welcome reception for the vessel at Brisbane.
26 Aug 2024
Navy, Army, Air Force
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Italian catamaran brings a powerful message

Wheelchair-accessible catamaran, 'Lo Spirito di Stella', stops in Brisbane during its round-the-world voyage.

Ceremonies & events | Sports, health & wellbeing
Leading Seaman Combat Systems Operator Django Scott-Cowling takes part in a publications exercise on board HMAS Sydney during a regional presence deployment.
26 Aug 2024
Navy
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Rare chance for healthy competition

HMAS Sydney's combat systems operators go head-to-head in publication competition during Exercise Pacific Dragon.

Alliances & relationships | Exercises & training
Able Seaman Meg Buchanan, right, receives her Navy jersey from ADF All Stars head coach Lieutenant Commander Elisabeth Quinn.
26 Aug 2024
Navy
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Footy running through her veins

Able Seaman Meg Buchanan’s elite Defence sportsperson status led to her selection by Port Melbourne Football Club.

Sports, health & wellbeing | People & service
HMAS Broome enters Darwin harbour for the last time prior decommissioning at Darwin, NT.
23 Aug 2024
Navy
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HMAS Broome’s final port call

For its final voyage, HMAS Broome conducted one last port visit to its namesake town in Western Australia.

Capability & technology | Community engagement
Public Affairs Officer for Indo-Pacific Endeavour 2024, Lieutenant Jonathan Wills, visits Henricus Avenue, Colombo, once home to his mother's family and which now bears the family name.
23 Aug 2024
Navy
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A golden opportunity in Sri Lanka

A deployment to Sri Lanka helped Lieutenant Jonathan Wills uncover his family history during Indo-Pacific Endeavour.

Alliances & relationships | People & service
Members of the Joint Explosives Ordnance Support and Joint Proof and Experimental Unit participate in a school visit in Canberra to showcase their unique STEM careers.
23 Aug 2024
Navy, Army, Air Force
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Pupils shown STEM career can be a blast

Primary school students gained insight into working in explosive ordnance disposal during National Science Week.

Capability & technology | Community engagement
Leading Seaman Underwater Medic Leith Strachan and Sri Lanka Navy divers discuss diving related medical practices during Indo-Pacific Endeavour activities in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka.
22 Aug 2024
Navy
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Divers reconnect and build on shared skills

Royal Australian Navy clearance divers sharpened skills with teams from the Sri Lanka Navy as part of Indo-Pacific Endeavour.

Alliances & relationships | Exercises & training
HMAS Sydney fires Navy's first naval strike missile off the Hawaiian coast.
22 Aug 2024
Navy, Air Force
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Local factory to boost ADF strike power

Australia will contribute $850 million to a project to manufacture and service anti-ship cruise missiles in a facility near Newcastle.

Capability & technology | Industry & partnership
Australian military personnel gather for a dawn service at the Trincomalee Commonwealth War Cemetery in Sri Lanka.
21 Aug 2024
Navy
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Indo-Pacific partners share history of sacrifice

Personnel gathered for a dawn service at the Commonwealth War Cemetery in Sri Lanka to remember two Australians killed in action.

Ceremonies & events
Graduating students from the Defence Industry Pathways Program, Intake 7, at Bentley Pines Training Restaurant, South Metropolitan TAFE in Perth, Western Australia.
21 Aug 2024
Navy
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Building Defence’s workforce

Nineteen trainees have graduated from Intake 7 of the Defence Industry Pathways Program in Western Australia.

Industry & partnership | People & service